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COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis, A New Incident in Recent Time: Is An Emerging Disease in The Near Future Impending?

Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2021
Mucormycosis (also known as black fungus) is caused by fungi of the Zygomycetes class and is the third most common invasive mycosis after candidiasis and aspergillosis. They colonize a large number of patients without invading them.
Suman Kumar Ray, Sukhes Mukherjee
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Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis Complicated by Mucormycosis Following Liver Transplantation for Cryptogenic Acute Liver Failure: A Case Report

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT HLH must be suspected in liver transplant patients who exhibit fever, cytopenia, hyperferritinemia, and dysfunction of the graft. HLH‐2004 guidelines and H‐score assessment early on will aid in early diagnosis and management, although prognosis remains poor when there are opportunistic infections.
Saif Ali Malik, Muhammad Hassaan Javaid, Syed Sibt E Haider, Hajirah Ghairat, AbuBakar Hafeez Bhatti, Hasibullah Aminpoor   +5 more
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Invasive mucormycosis in a tertiary care hospital in the western region of Saudi Arabia: 11-year retrospective chart review from 2009 to 2019

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2022
Background: Mucormycosis is a life-threatening, invasive fungal disease that mostly affects immunocompromised hosts. In this study, we aimed to assess the clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with mucormycosis in a tertiary care hospital in ...
Hassan Almarhabi, Essam Al-Asmari, Adeeb Munshi, Fayssal Farahat, Abdulfatah Al-Amri, Hatim Q. Almaghraby, Maher Alharbi, Abulhakeem Althaqafi   +7 more
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Computed Tomography Findings in Pathology‐Confirmed Rhino‐Orbital Mucormycosis During the COVID‐19 Era: A Retrospective Cross‐Sectional Study

Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Rhino‐orbital mucormycosis (ROM) emerged as a severe complication during the COVID‐19 era, particularly in immunocompromised patients. Computed tomography (CT) plays a critical role in early detection and assessment of disease extent.
Mohsen Naraghi, Hashem Sharifian, Nassib Musa Isiyaku, Amirhossein Babaei   +3 more
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Investigating the Hepcidin Gene Polymorphisms in COVID-19-Associated Mucormycosis Susceptibility: A Clinical-Laboratory Study [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences
Background: Following the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak (COVID-19), it became a worrisome health burden worldwide. COVID-19-associated mucormycosis emergence, characterized by dysregulated inflammation and iron metabolism, exacerbated the prognosis ...
Reyhaneh Ravanbakhsh, Yalda Farhand, Fatemeh Ravanbakhsh Ghavghani   +2 more
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The Role of Invasive Procedures in the Treatment of Complicated Gastrointestinal Graft‐Versus‐Host Disease in Pediatric Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, Volume 73, Issue 7, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti, Giorgio Persano, Chiara Grimaldi, Pier Luigi Di Paolo, Carmen Malaspina, Francesco Quagliarella, Valerio Balassone, Anna Chiara Iolanda Contini, Gian Luigi Natali, Rita Alaggio, Ivan Pietro Aloi, Tamara Caldaro, Alessandro Crocoli   +12 more
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Pathogenesis of Mucormycosis [PDF]

Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012
Mucormycosis is a life-threatening infection that occurs in patients who are immunocompromised because of diabetic ketoacidosis, neutropenia, organ transplantation, and/or increased serum levels of available iron. Because of the increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus, cancer, and organ transplantation, the number of patients at risk for this deadly
Ashraf S, Ibrahim, Brad, Spellberg, Thomas J, Walsh, Dimitrios P, Kontoyiannis   +3 more
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Tracheal, laryngeal and pulmonary mucormycosis followed by organizing pneumonia in a patient with Adult Onset Still's Disease

Medical Mycology Case Reports, 2018
We report a case of tracheal, laryngeal and pulmonary mucormycosis in a patient receiving immunosuppressive medication for an autoinflammatory fever syndrome.
Fabian Leo, Michael Zeh, Annegret Prothmann, Oliver Kurzai, Sylke Kurz, Christian Grohé   +5 more
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The hospitalization rate and clinical characteristics of mucormycosis prior and during COVID-19 pandemic: A single-center study

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2023
Introduction: There have been some reports of the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and mucormycosis. This study aims to compare the hospitalization rates and clinical characteristics of mucormycosis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Mehrdad Estakhr, Zahra Ghotbi, Mahtab Rostamihosseinkhani, Etrat Hooshmandi, Masoud Janipour, Vahid Reza Ostovan, Nima Fadakar, Hanieh Bazrafshan, Zahra Bahrami, Abbas Rahimi-Jaberi, Maryam Poursadeghfard, Masoumeh Nazeri, Pariya Kouhi, Peyman Petramfar, Sadegh Izadi, Zohreh Barzegar, Ehsan Nikzadeh, Sarvin Sasannia, Shahram Arsang-Jang, Reza Tabrizi, Behzad Khademi, Mahsa Kohandel-Shirazi, Mohammad Saied Salehi, Nahid Ashjazadeh, Bijan Khademi, Mohammad Javad Ashraf, Owrang Eilami, Amir Roudgari, Mohsen Moghaddami, Kamiar Zomorodian, Hamid Badali, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi   +31 more
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Isolated pulmonary mucormycosis in diabetic patients

Journal of Association of Pulmonologist of Tamil Nadu, 2023
Mucormycosis refers to the infection caused by a growing number of members of the Mucorales. Mucormycosis has emerged as an important opportunistic infection in severely immunocompromised patients with hematological malignancies and recipients of stem ...
Vyshnavi Rajeev, Ajay Narasimhan, Jebin Roger, R Narasimhan   +3 more
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